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Famed for his piano music, Sergei Rachmaninov's prodigious gifts as a melodist are revealed in his one act opera Aleko, an adaptation of Alexander Pushkin's poem The Gypsies. The title character, Aleko, tires of his upper class life and runs off to join a gypsy caravan where he falls in love with the gypsy Zemfira, with tragic consequences. The sumptuous scoring and compositional style marked Rachmaninov as a sublimely lyrical composer. Prokofiev's Semyon Kotko, the tragic story of a young Russian soldier returning from war to a glorious Bolshevik Russia, is an epic work, full of nationalism and hopeful dreams of the future. It contains some of Prokofiev's finest and most dramatic music, especially in the climax of the thrilling and shocking third act which is performed in this concert.

Creatives/Company

Music(s): Rachmaninov (Aleko), Prokofiev (Semyon Kotko)

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Archive listings for Aleko/Semyon Kotko (Act Three) (2008)

Work type: Opera or Operetta.

T96491891

Aleko - Concert performance sung in Russian. Semyon Kotko - Concert performance sung in Russian. Run time 2 hours 10 minutes. Supported by The Stevenston Charitable Trust.Performer Evgeny Nikitin (Aleko). Performer Zemfira (Aleko - Irina Mataeva). Performer Mikhail Petrenko (Aleko - Zemfira's Father). Performer Irina Mataeva (Semyon Kotko - Sofiya). Performer Victor Lutsiuk (Semyon Kotko - Semyon). Company Mariinsky Opera and Orchestra. Conductor Valery Gergiev.

24 Aug 08

Usher Hall, Edinburgh :: V0738357779
listing details L0845887747

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